The Cold Hard Facts of Life

Porter Wagoner

Bear Family

A 3 CD digipack comprising six albums released between 1966 and 1970.

Tracks

CD 1;

• Men with Broken Hearts (Williams)
• I Just Came to Smell the Flowers (McAlprin)
• May You Never Be Alone (Williams)
• Skid Row Joe (Hart)
• Take Me Back and Try Me One More Time (Tubb)
• How Far Down Can I Go? (Barney / Howard)
• I'm a Long Way from Home (Cochran)
• Confessions of a Broken Man (Anderson)
• My Tears Are Overdue (Hart)
• I've Been Down That Road Before (Williams)
• Thy Burdens Are Greater Than Mine (King)
• My Last Two Tens (McAlpin)
• Boston Jail (Sean / Stough)
• The Convict and the Rose (Chapin / King)
• I Relived My Life Today (McAlprin)
• I'm Just Here to Get My Baby out of Jail (Davis / Taylor)
• Let Me In (Crysler)
• The Big River Train (Mullins)
• The Snakes Crawl at Night (Burch / Tills)
• They're All Going Home But One (Davis / Taylor)
• Folsom Prison (Cash)
• Soul of a Convict (Sovine)
• Green Green Grass of Home (Putman)
• (I Heard That) Lonesome Whistle (Davis / Williams)

• The First Mrs. Jones (Anderson)
• Words and Music (Bulla)
• The Cold Hard Facts of Life (Anderson)
• Sleep (Clement)
• Hundred Dollar Funeral (McAlpin)
• If I Could Only Start Over (Bradshaw)
• Tragic Romance (Grandpa Jones)
• Try Being Lonely (McCormick / Trenet)
• I'll Get Ahead Some Day (Magaha)
• I Just Can't Let You Say Goodbye (Nelson)
• Shopworn (Harris)
• Julie (Jennings)
• Wino (Parton / Wagoner)
• Daddy and the Wine (Crysler)
• Swinging Doors (Haggard)
• The Bottom of the Bottle (Young)
• In the Shadows of the Wine (Rose)
• She Burnt the Little Roadside Tavern Down (Howard)
• The Bottle Let Me Down (Haggard)
• One Dime for the Wine (Putman)
• Wine (Tillis)
• Turn the Juke Box Up Louder (Morse)
• I Threw Away the Rose (Haggard)
• Bottle, Bottle (Kingston)

• The World Needs a Washin' (Cochran / Trent)
• Banks of the Ohio (Fold)
• Sing Me Back Home (Haggard)
• Barefoot Nellie (Davis / Reno)
• Sorrow Overtakes the Wine (McCord)
• Black Jack's Bar (Driftwood)
• The Carroll County Accident (Ferguson)
• Rocky Top (Bryant)
• Your Mother's Eyes (Tillis)
• King of the Cannon County Hills (Jones)
• I Lived So Fast and Hard (Parton)
• Fallen Leaves (Grandpa Jones)
• Here's a Toast to Mama (Owens / Price)
• Sidewalks of Chicago (Kirby)
• The Silent Kind (Wagoner)
• The Alley (Parton)
• The Town Drunk (Owens)
• Mama (Aldridge)
• Bottle of Wine (Paxton)
• One More Dime (Parton)
• I Judged a Man (Mullins)
• When I Drink My Wine (Parton)

The 3 CD set collects together 6 LPs.

The tracks on CD 1 were originally released on;

• Confessions Of A Broken Man, Porter Wagoner, 1966 (tracks 1-12)
• Soul Of A Convict, Porter Wagoner, 1967 (tracks 13-24)

• The Cold Hard Facts Of Life, Porter Wagoner, 1967 (CD 2, tracks 1-12)
• The Bottom Of The Bottle, Porter Wagoner, 1968 (tracks 13-24)

• The Carroll County Accident, Porter Wagoner, 1969 (CD 3, tracks 1-12)
• Down In The Alley: Skid Row Joe', Porter Wagoner, 1970 (tracks 13-22)